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A (0:00)
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This is the Bainwell Podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co host, Brent Billings. Today we continue our analysis of season five of the Chosen with a discussion of the third episode woes.
A (0:16)
Yeah, you know, we were chatting before we hit record here, Brent, about. I've now spent two episodes throwing shade at how they've used the Jesus weeping over Jerusalem. And you went and just noticed how in the Gospels, that phrase is not only slightly different in different instances, it shows up in kind of different places. And so I think there would be room for a rebuttal of like, well, we're lacking some level of clarity. We have the ability to put it here as they've put it. I have always associated this concept of Jesus weeping over Jerusalem with the triumphal entry, because it's such a. I think you said it was Matthew that does that almost while he's writing in.
B (1:02)
It's Luke. Luke 19.
A (1:03)
Luke 19 is where he's riding into the temple and weeps over Jerusalem.
B (1:08)
Yeah. Now they portrayed this. He gets on the donkey. Yeah, it's. It's even mixed up the way they're portraying it. So they bring it to Jesus. They put their cloaks on the donkey. Jesus sits on it, starts riding. Then people are spreading their cloaks on the road. As he's drawing near, the disciples begin to rejoice. We see all that. People are shouting. Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, teacher, rebuke your disciples. So, like, that's. They had those guys come out before he gets to the crowd. So we're already mixing things around there. And then Luke goes on to say, and when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, blah, blah, blah. Like he's going to actually say that in this episode. They don't have that in the other gospels in the entry.
A (1:55)
So, yeah, I have always associated that with the triumphal entry because of the impact it has on the triumphal entry. If you don't associate Jesus's weeping as a reaction to the triumphal entry, then what you get is rock and roll music. Jesus smiling. Look at the triumph. If Jesus is weeping, it tells us the people didn't understand. And this triumphantry is not what Jesus. Like, he was trying to communicate something and everybody was missing it so much, so he breaks down and weeps over it. So I think they would look at the record and say there's plenty of room to do what they've done in portraying it the way they have. For me, that's always been important of keeping those Two things together. So I wanted to be more fair about the shade that I had thrown. Now two episodes in a row, and it's not going to get any better. I think they have a case that they could make. I just don't like it. But I wanted to acknowledge that, like, okay, when you look at those gospel records, there's enough room. You could certainly put the pieces together the way that they have. For me, it's important to tie those two things together for those reasons. But I digress.